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The fracas in Greenville is repeating itself across the U.S. Ever since the religious right first began targeting local school-board races in 1990, religious conservatives have monopolized many school agendas with challenges that say more about the parents' political and religious beliefs than their children's education. Should students...
Officers Philip Murphy and Patrick Griffin fought in the fracas, said sources, who could not name the exact cause of the dispute.
The nearly unanimous vote was the board's response to events which rocked The Crimson on June 10, 1993. That morning, Stoll was involved in a fracas with several first-year female editors. During the scuffle, Stoll enraged other editors by using obscenities which he and other members of the...
But in a fracas not uncommon at this year's council meetings, the vote on the Powell letter was punctuated with political jockeying and posturing that led some council members to storm out of Sever Hall in an apparent attempt to thwart the formation of a quorum. Hanselman then conducted...
Israeli officials may have publicized the theory about Hamas' ties in the U.S. and the arrests of the Americans in order to deflect attention from the fracas over the deported Palestinians. The U.S. -- and most of the world -- thought the move was a blunder, putting Israel on the defensive. "We...